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propertyless adj
1 the lowest class of citizens of ancient Rome who had no property [syn: proletarian] [ant: patrician, plebeian]
2 of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers; "party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw [syn: wage-earning, working-class, blue-collar]
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